TY - JOUR
T1 - A new species of puddle frog from an unexplored mountain in southwestern Ethiopia (Anura, Phrynobatrachidae, Phrynobatrachus)
AU - Goutte, Sandra
AU - Reyes-Velasco, Jacobo
AU - Boissinot, Stephane
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority for providing us with collecting permits. We are very grateful for all the people from the town of Bibita for their hospitality, especially Abatyhun, Keysi, and Coma. Fieldwork in Ethiopia would not have been possible if not for the invaluable assistance of Megersa Kelbessa and Samuel Woldeyes of Rock Hewn Tours. This research was supported by New York University Abu Dhabi Research Funds AD180 (to SB). We are grateful to the two reviewers for their useful comments on our manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© Sandra Goutte et al.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - A new species of Phrynobatrachus is described from the unexplored and isolated Bibita Mountain, southwestern Ethiopia, based on morphological characters and sequences of the mitochondrial rRNA16s. The new species can be distinguished from all its congeners by a small size (SVL = 16.8 ± 0.1 mm for males, 20.3 ± 0.9 mm for females), a slender body with long legs and elongated fingers and toes, a golden coloration, a completely hidden tympanum, and a marked canthus rostralis. The phylogenetic hypothesis based on 16s sequences places the new species as sister to the species group that includes P. natalensis, although it is morphologically more similar to other dwarf Phrynobatrachus species, such as the Ethiopian P. minutus.
AB - A new species of Phrynobatrachus is described from the unexplored and isolated Bibita Mountain, southwestern Ethiopia, based on morphological characters and sequences of the mitochondrial rRNA16s. The new species can be distinguished from all its congeners by a small size (SVL = 16.8 ± 0.1 mm for males, 20.3 ± 0.9 mm for females), a slender body with long legs and elongated fingers and toes, a golden coloration, a completely hidden tympanum, and a marked canthus rostralis. The phylogenetic hypothesis based on 16s sequences places the new species as sister to the species group that includes P. natalensis, although it is morphologically more similar to other dwarf Phrynobatrachus species, such as the Ethiopian P. minutus.
KW - Bibita mountain
KW - Ethiopia
KW - Morphology
KW - Phrynobatrachus bibita sp. n.
KW - Phylogenetic relationships
KW - Taxonomy
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U2 - 10.3897/zookeys.824.31570
DO - 10.3897/zookeys.824.31570
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85065224614
SN - 1313-2989
VL - 2019
SP - 53
EP - 70
JO - ZooKeys
JF - ZooKeys
IS - 824
ER -